”The first time I saw Ángel Di María play soccer, I thought, That’s my man. One reason was the name, so loaded with culture and history and yet so otherworldly that it’s like a novel in itself. Another reason was his country, Argentina, which ever since I watched the World Cup on television in 1978 when I was nine has represented for me the land of myth, the republic of dreams, which naturally only intensified when Borges entered my life, and Maradona, of course, the greatest magician of them all. A third reason I took note of Di María, who plays professionally for Real Madrid, was his striking resemblance to Franz Kafka. It is fantastic, isn’t it, Kafka out there on the wing in La Liga?”